Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed!
This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)

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SN

Thank you Barbara. It was really enjoyable trip with you in this course. I have found many new learning techniques. Your positive behavior was very encouraging for me to begin a new list of my life!

MB

May 26, 2017

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I really like this teaching duo. I want to take more classes from them and continue learning how to learn. Simple concepts combined with scientific explanations made this a very fun class to learn.

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Change IS possible

In today's world, change is the only constant. This means that whatever stage you are in life, you need to keep yourself open and able to change. How can you do this? In three ways: Learn more about your hidden capabilities and assets. Learn more about learning effectively. Learn about matching your assets with the opportunities that face you. In this week, we'll dive into these three important areas!

Dr. Barbara Oakley

Dr. Terrence Sejnowski

Scott Mathews

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[MUSIC] We've had a busy week here in Mindshift. Here are a few of the key points we covered. First, it's okay to be a slow learner. In fact slow learners can some times catch errors that even geniuses miss. Precisely because they're looking at things more slowly and carefully. And as research on mastery learning shows. If you're a slow learner, it may take you more time to learn something, but you can absolutely grasp the material just as well as, and sometimes even better than, fast, racecar brain learners. We also learned how important it is to take active steps yourself in whatever you are learning. Watching a video or reading a book forms a great start to learning and sometimes it's true. That's all you need. But if you are learning something you want to be able to do yourself, whether it's coding, math, speaking another language, learning to dance. Or anything else, you need to actively practice yourself if you want to develop any sort of expertise. Just watching someone solve a problem or speak another language, for example, isn't enough. Career wise, we learned that your past can have great value for your future even if it seems completely disconnected. So don't feel bad if your past at first. We looked at focused versus diffuse ways of thinking. And we discovered that slight occasional disruptions as when you're studying in a coffee shop can enhance your ability to learn more difficult big picture sorts of concepts. Music isn't necessarily bad, although it's perhaps best to stick to music without lyrics that isn't too loud. And we found that environment can make a surprising difference in how you feel. We also got an overview of the changing nature of today's world, and the important role of not only language and culture, but of technology. Sometimes your natural passions can fool you. It's important to take a strategic as well as a passion influenced approach to your learning. Next week we'll be getting deeper into happy learning. See you soon! [MUSIC]